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Little is known of Selvi's early life. Probably from Venice, he came to Florence and became a close follower of Massimiliano Soldani. He was active in Florence and, beginning in 1740, executed with Bartolommeo Vaggelli a series of seventy-six medals of the House of Medici. There are several medals of Englishmen among his works. Selvi is documented as a sculptor but only his medals are known. As a medalist he is strongly dependent on the work of Soldani, often reworking Soldani's reverses for his own. See Forrer 5, pp. 472-74; Grotemeyer in Thieme-Becker 30, p. 483; Kress, p. 92; Lankheit, pp. 195-97; Detroit, pp. 96-101. --- from The Molinari Collection, Andrea S. Norris and Ingrid Weber, Published by Bowdoin College, 1976